Est 1923

Andrew Kennedy sings Berlioz, Gluck and Mozart

Kennedy catches the mood in a satisfying operatic recital

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Hector Berlioz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Gluck

Genre:

Opera

Label: Signum

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: SIGCD189

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Iphigénie en Aulide, Movement: Calchas, d'un trait mortel percé (Achille) Christoph Gluck, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Christoph Gluck, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Alceste, Movement: ~ Christoph Gluck, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Christoph Gluck, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Orphée et Eurydice, Movement: J'ai perdu mon Eurydice Christoph Gluck, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Christoph Gluck, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Iphigénie en Tauride, Movement: ~ Christoph Gluck, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Christoph Gluck, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Overture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Hier soll ich dich denn sehen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Overture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Del più sublime soglio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Ah, se fosse intorno al trono Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Se all'impero Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Les) Troyens, '(The) Trojans', Movement: O blonde Cérès Hector Berlioz, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Hector Berlioz, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Béatrice et Bénédict, Movement: Ah! je vais l'aimer Hector Berlioz, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Hector Berlioz, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie, Movement: Chant de bonheur Hector Berlioz, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Hector Berlioz, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
(La) Damnation de Faust, Movement: ~ Hector Berlioz, Composer
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
Hector Berlioz, Composer
Simon Over, Conductor
Southbank Sinfonia
The line Gluck-Mozart-Berlioz is an enterprising one to follow, not previously (I think) staked out by tenors in recital discs. It is virtuoso territory too and beset with challenges, ably met by Andrew Kennedy, who on the whole is well suited to the repertoire. A notable exception, unfortunately, is the first item of all, Achilles’ boastful aria about what he will do to the traitor Calchas when opportunity arises. It makes a spirited opening to the programme but in its first phrases places the voice as a lone reed in a thunderstorm, thin and rather comical.

If the start is less than flattering, the conclusion to the whole recital is most satisfying of all. Faust’s reflections (“Merci, doux crépuscule”) achieve the sublimity of utterance to which much else in the recital is tending. The singer catches the mood perfectly (Kennedy’s voice takes well to the quiet rapture of “Que j’aime ce silence”) and, as always, the orchestral playing is sensitive in style and texture. The Overture to Die Entführung is particularly enjoyable, the refinements of enlightened civilisation played off against the colourful excitement of the East. Kennedy’s voice could itself do with a wider range of colour but it is always clear in definition and often, as in Pylades’ aria and Tito’s three solos, gracefully poised. And it is good to hear him in an operatic recital for a change.

Andrew Kennedy sings Berlioz, Gluck and Mozart

Iphigénie en Aulide, Movement: Calchas, d'un trait mortel percé (Achille)

Alceste, Movement: ~

Orphée et Eurydice, Movement: J'ai perdu mon Eurydice

Iphigénie en Tauride, Movement: ~

(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Overture

(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Hier soll ich dich denn sehen

(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke

(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Overture

(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Del più sublime soglio

(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Ah, se fosse intorno al trono

(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Se all'impero

(Les) Troyens, '(The) Trojans', Movement: O blonde Cérès

Béatrice et Bénédict, Movement: Ah! je vais l'aimer

Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie, Movement: Chant de bonheur

(La) Damnation de Faust, Movement: ~

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